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Lawyers make their living with words. They employ their tool of the trade by carefully crafting what is said in the courtroom and on paper, from a jury trial to a real estate contract.
A good lawyer also knows that words that may work wonderfully
Continue Reading How Lawyers Use Words to Influence Perception
In this week’s episode, author, political commentator and former Big Law attorney Sophia Nelson discusses the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings regarding abortion and gun control, the legal industry’s increasing inability to remain silent on political and social issues and shifting attitudes toward mental health and diversity in the profession.
Continue Reading 'The Old Guard Better Buckle Up': Why the Legal Industry Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Divisive Issues
Pre/Dicta launched yesterday from former litigator Dan Rabinowitz, who believes that combining case data with external information can not only provide a fuller data-based picture, but also better predict outcomes for defense and plaintiff firms alike.
Continue Reading Pre/Dicta Launches to Make Case Outcome Predictions—Bringing Demographic Data in to Help
The Am Law 200 firm hopes to assist companies that are seeking to get into the metaverse as well as help those already there.
Continue Reading Entering the Metaverse, Benesch Sees the 'Next Iteration of the Commercial Internet'
The firm increasingly believed the metaverse will become another place where lawyers and law firms could connect with current and prospective clients and referral sources.
Continue Reading Here's Why Pond Lehocky Giordano Opened Metaverse Offices
All too often, we think of the legal market, especially for law firms, as being composed of BigLaw or at least lawyers that bill by the hour.
The truth is, though, that today’s legal marketplace is composed of various segments. These segments have business models and goals that are so different that they might as well be thought of
Continue Reading The Legal Market: Continued Diversification and Segmentation
International law firm Foley & Lardner built and launched its contract review technology tool. But despite a booming demand for this tech, born out of the pandemic, few law firms seem poised to do the same.
Continue Reading Foley Launched a Contract Review Tool. Don't Expect Other Firms to Follow
The DOJ and the SEC will continue to aggressively pursue what they view as wrongful conduct repackaged for the digital age, and will adapt their legal theories accordingly.
Continue Reading The Limits and Implications of the Government's Blunt Tools Against NFTs
Alda Leu Dennis, general partner at Initialized Capital, explains why she’d like law firms to be more receptive to tech transformation, how she wants tech companies to ‘sell the dream,’ and why the person she’d love to meet most could be you.
Continue Reading Women of Legal Tech: Alda Leu Dennis Shares Why She Made the Move from Litigator to Investor
From a mass of text written in response to a survey question, natural language processing tools can depict common significant words, quantify relationships between words, classify mood, and help us learn from words that often pair together.
Continue Reading Natural Language Processing and Survey Data: Word Clouds, Associations, Sentiment and Bigrams
The criminal justice rules committee stands apart as a holdout.
Continue Reading Most of Pa.'s Rules Committees Are Proposing Expanded Use of Technology in Courts
A statement from founder and CEO Rick Merrill pointed to insufficient financing as the reason behind the closure.
Continue Reading Judicial Analytics Provider Gavelytics to Close Company on June 30
One of the best things about writing my blog is having the chance to interview and watch lawyers transform their ” there’s gotta be a better way” moment into a product. One of the worst thing about my blog is having to report when a wonderful “start-up” has to shut down. In this case the lawyer was Rick Merrill who
Continue Reading Breaking News : Gavelytics Groundbreaking State Analytics Platform to Shut Down Tomorrow June 30, 2022
The hardest stories I have to report are the ones about legal tech startups that are forced to shut down. Today brings news that Gavelytics, a seven-year-old litigation analytics company, is closing its doors effective tomorrow.
I first wrote about Gavelytics on the day that its product publicly launched, Sept. 26, 2017, and later had the opportunity to
Continue Reading Litigation Analytics Company Gavelytics is Shutting Down Tomorrow
As cryptocurrency faces significant blows in value, firms that are accepting it as payment hold strong, but note that precautions are well-advised to safeguard themselves in the volatile market.
Continue Reading Firms Accepting Cryptocurrency Persevere Amid Volatility